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Slavery, its pernicious effects - - 47 
Sneuuulerg, mountains of, their compo- 
nent parts, and vegetable produc- 
tions - _ 246, 247 
dellitute of flirubbery, and tlie reafon 
247, 248 
produ6lions of this diftrid, and its 
advantages and inconveniences - 250 
character of its colonics - - 251 
Soap-, how formed at the Cape - 91 
Soda, might be procured in abundance 
at the Cape - - 92 
So'd, its fertility in various places - 135 
Spiders, remarkable account of - 392 
Sprhig-hoh, deflroyed in great numbers 
as game - _ -118 
Springs, medicinal, noticed - 334. 355 
Staaten, Ifland of. Settlement formed at 
the, for the Southern Whale- 
fifhery _ _ _ j 
Stahaltes, account of a mafs of -311 
Stream, hot, account of - 73, 74 
Sugar-cane, wild and uncultivated - 67 
33 
37 
39 
Tahle mountain, defcriptlon of - _ 
view of its ftratification 
grand view from its fummit 
caufes of the phenomenon of the cloud 
on its fummit - . 
prevalent among the Kalfers - 216 
Temperature, remarkable variation of - 337 
Thermometer, its remarkable variations 190. 238 
probable caufe - _ ib. 
Thriijhes, many kinds of, in Southern 
Africa - _ - 224 
Thunder-form defcribed - - 320 
Timher, kinds of, produced at the 
Cape - 19, 20. 133. 339 
Timler — page 
for building, fcarce and expenfive - 20 
for fuel, mode of procuring - - lb. 
T roglodytes, Bosjefmans refemble the, and 
eat the larvs of ants and locufts 282 — 284 
VaiUant, remarks on an afTertlon of that 
author - - 279, 280 
his veracity called in queftion - 360 
critlcifm on his books of travels - ib. 
an erroneous affertion of, corrcfted - 382 
Vegetable produftions, abundant - 24 
account of a variety of them - 2^, 26, 27 
Vdlages, account of feme in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Cape - 63,64 
Vines, culture of - - - 23, 24 
Vultures, various kinds of, mentioned - 267 
Unicorn, figure of an animal refembling 
it difcovered - - - 3^3 
confiderations rendering probable the 
exiftence of fuch an animal 313 — 319 
Viverra, various fpecies of that genus 
noticed - - 231, 232 
W 
Water, great want of, experienced 
121. 328-333 
when a traveller may expeft to meet 
with - - _ 97 
Weather, view of the, at the Cape - 40, 41 
its mean temperature - - - 41 
/FZW^ j^jif/j eftabliftied at the Cape - 32 
Wild hog of Africa defcribed - 303 
/'^Wj, prevalent at the Cape - 40,41 
JVine, Conftantia - - 23 
JVines of the Cape, account of - 64, 65, 66 
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